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Trip to remote school motivates helping attitude
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My parents are supporting a school in the mountains of Sichuan Province. The school is in an extremely remote village, linked to a town only by a small countryside road that crosses two mountains and is dangerous to drive on many days. Most of the villagers there are Tibetan.
The school is nice — not big, of course, but clean and pretty. There’s only one class for every grade in primary school and two in middle school. The school buildings and the dormitories are painted white. Their classes are almost the same as ours, only they don’t have English until seventh grade, and they have Tibetan language classes.
Also, they have 11 days of class and three days of rest because the students live too far from the school. One girl told me that she must walk for 10 hours to get home! She must be so determined to learn.
I had classes with Grade 5 students during my visit to the school. Their lessons aren’t easy, maybe even a little harder than ours. But when I asked them what they want to do, most students said they would stay and be farmers. They are smart and diligent, they just don’t have chance to get out of the mountains.
Being a teacher isn’t easy, either. Because there aren’t enough teachers, every teacher must teach three to four subjects. Also, there aren’t enough food to eat. Mr Li, the head of primary school, said there’s only potatoes and lettuce most days, and hardly anything to eat in winter.
I ate, learned and lived with the students there for two weeks and then came back with a remarkable change in my passion to help others. I will buy these books for next time I go: picture books for Grade 1 and 2, easy English books.
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